Words Containing IU
Explore a range of words that include the letter IU, showcasing the diversity and richness of the English language. Enhance your vocabulary with interesting and unique terms featuring IU.
3 letter words
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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| piu | 5 | - | - |
4 letter words
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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| pium | 8 | - | - |
| iure | 4 | - | - |
5 letter words
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| opium | 9 | an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy | - |
| ilium | 7 | an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War | - |
| onium | 7 | - | - |
| odium | 8 | hate coupled with disgust | - |
| shiur | 8 | - | - |
| piums | 9 | - | - |
| giust | 6 | - | - |
6 letter words
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| genius | 7 | unusual mental ability | - |
| medium | 11 | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public | - |
| radius | 7 | the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere | - |
| sodium | 9 | a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) | - |
| valium | 11 | a tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA; can also be used as an anticonvulsant drug in cases of nerve agent poisoning | - |
| helium | 11 | a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas) | - |
| podium | 11 | a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | - |
| atrium | 8 | any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart) | - |
| radium | 9 | an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores | - |
| tedium | 9 | the feeling of being bored by something tedious | - |
| barium | 10 | a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite | - |
| triune | 6 | being three in one; used especially of the Christian Trinity | a triune God |
| cesium | 10 | a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal | - |
| allium | 8 | large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus | - |
| aecium | 10 | fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores | - |
| bivium | 13 | - | - |
| conium | 10 | small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock | - |
| cilium | 10 | any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | - |
| cerium | 10 | a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group | - |
| curium | 10 | a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei | - |
| corium | 10 | the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | - |
| giusts | 7 | - | - |
| giusto | 7 | - | - |
| gonium | 9 | - | - |
| folium | 11 | a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock | - |
| erbium | 10 | a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium | - |
| echium | 13 | a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae | - |
| dolium | 9 | - | - |
| diuron | 7 | - | - |
| indium | 9 | a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite | - |
| opiums | 10 | - | - |
| omnium | 10 | - | - |
| oniums | 8 | - | - |
| osmium | 10 | a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known | - |
| ostium | 8 | - | - |
| odiums | 9 | - | - |
| oidium | 9 | - | - |
| milium | 10 | a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland | - |
| miurus | 8 | - | - |
| modius | 9 | - | - |
| minium | 10 | a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics | - |
| medius | 9 | - | - |
| lolium | 8 | darnel; ryegrass | - |
| labium | 10 | a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva) | - |
| kalium | 12 | - | - |
| ionium | 8 | - | - |
| tomium | 10 | - | - |
| xenium | 15 | - | - |
| wikiup | 15 | a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States | - |
| telium | 8 | - | - |
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7 letter words
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| stadium | 10 | a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | - |
| triumph | 14 | dwell on with satisfaction | - |
| uranium | 9 | a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons | - |
| premium | 13 | payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | - |
| calcium | 13 | a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals | - |
| lithium | 12 | a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals | - |
| cranium | 11 | the part of the skull that encloses the brain | - |
| iridium | 10 | a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium | - |
| mediums | 12 | - | - |
| cadmium | 14 | a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores | - |
| tertius | 7 | - | - |
| diurnal | 8 | having a daily cycle or occurring every day | diurnal rotation of the heavens |
| natrium | 9 | - | - |
| thorium | 12 | a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands | - |
| gladius | 9 | - | - |
| tritium | 9 | a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms | - |
| exuvium | 19 | - | - |
| erodium | 10 | geraniums of Europe and South America and Australia especially mountainous regions | - |
| erbiums | 11 | - | - |
| eluvium | 12 | - | - |
| elogium | 10 | - | - |
| echiums | 14 | - | - |
| dubnium | 12 | a transuranic element | - |
| diurons | 8 | - | - |
| deasiul | 8 | - | - |
| curiums | 11 | - | - |
| congius | 10 | a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters | - |
| coniums | 11 | - | - |
| coriums | 11 | - | - |
| omniums | 11 | - | - |
| osmiums | 11 | - | - |
| ophiura | 12 | - | - |
| orarium | 9 | - | - |
| rhenium | 12 | a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum | - |
| radiums | 10 | - | - |
| qiviuts | 19 | - | - |
| pythium | 17 | any fungus of the genus Pythium | - |
| protium | 11 | genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi | - |
| podiums | 12 | - | - |
| piupius | 11 | - | - |
| plagium | 12 | - | - |
| paxiuba | 18 | - | - |
| oxonium | 16 | - | - |
| pallium | 11 | (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | - |
| kaliums | 13 | - | - |
| niobium | 11 | a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium | - |
| muonium | 11 | - | - |
| miniums | 11 | - | - |
| loliums | 9 | - | - |
| fermium | 14 | a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons | - |
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8 letter words
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| aquarium | 19 | a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals | - |
| geniuses | 9 | - | - |
| titanium | 10 | a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite | - |
| delirium | 11 | state of violent mental agitation | - |
| ammonium | 14 | the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion | - |
| emporium | 14 | a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | - |
| stadiums | 11 | - | - |
| chromium | 17 | a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing | - |
| solarium | 10 | a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | - |
| geranium | 11 | any of numerous plants of the family Geraniaceae | - |
| selenium | 10 | a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite) | - |
| diuretic | 11 | any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water | - |
| polonium | 12 | a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor | - |
| rubidium | 13 | a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite | - |
| thallium | 13 | a soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores | - |
| demiurge | 12 | a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe | - |
| craniums | 12 | - | - |
| imperium | 14 | the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | - |
| refugium | 14 | - | - |
| friulano | 11 | - | - |
| freemium | 15 | - | - |
| echiuran | 13 | - | - |
| radiused | 10 | - | - |
| podiumed | 14 | - | - |
| risorius | 8 | - | - |
| limonium | 12 | sea lavender | - |
| nihonium | 13 | - | - |
| zoariums | 19 | - | - |
| cambiums | 16 | - | - |
| cadmiums | 15 | - | - |
| caesiums | 12 | - | - |
| calciums | 14 | - | - |
| caladium | 13 | any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red | - |
| diluvium | 14 | - | - |
| didymium | 17 | - | - |
| denarius | 9 | - | - |
| deasiuls | 9 | - | - |
| cyathium | 18 | - | - |
| cymatium | 17 | (architecture) a molding for a cornice; in profile it is shaped like an S (partly concave and partly convex) | - |
| conidium | 13 | an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore | - |
| coronium | 12 | - | - |
| coremium | 14 | - | - |
| conarium | 12 | - | - |
| ciborium | 14 | - | - |
| lixivium | 20 | - | - |
| lithiums | 13 | - | - |
| ossarium | 10 | - | - |
| oncidium | 13 | any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants | - |
| onychium | 18 | small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae | - |
| oogonium | 11 | - | - |
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9 letter words
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| plutonium | 13 | a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239 | - |
| potassium | 13 | a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite | - |
| gymnasium | 17 | athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training | - |
| magnesium | 14 | a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine) | - |
| symposium | 18 | a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations | - |
| harmonium | 16 | a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows | - |
| aluminium | 13 | a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | - |
| triumphal | 16 | joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | a triumphal success |
| bacterium | 15 | (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants | - |
| aquariums | 20 | - | - |
| zirconium | 22 | a lustrous grey strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zircon | - |
| palladium | 14 | a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry | - |
| terrarium | 11 | a vivarium in which selected living plants are kept and observed | - |
| presidium | 14 | a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session | - |
| euphonium | 16 | a bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family | - |
| strontium | 11 | a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite | - |
| deuterium | 12 | an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) | - |
| trapezius | 20 | either of two flat triangular muscles of the shoulder and upper back that are involved in moving the shoulders and arms | - |
| sensorium | 11 | the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world | - |
| germanium | 14 | a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite | - |
| collyrium | 16 | lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes | - |
| deliriums | 12 | - | - |
| cymbidium | 21 | any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | - |
| flerovium | 17 | - | - |
| echiurans | 14 | - | - |
| fusariums | 14 | - | - |
| friulanos | 12 | - | - |
| freemiums | 16 | - | - |
| ciboriums | 15 | - | - |
| brachiums | 18 | - | - |
| dicalcium | 16 | - | - |
| nihoniums | 14 | - | - |
| radiusing | 11 | - | - |
| podiuming | 15 | - | - |
| hydroxium | 25 | - | - |
| joliotium | 18 | - | - |
| moscovium | 18 | - | - |
| limoniums | 13 | - | - |
| actiniums | 13 | - | - |
| achaenium | 16 | - | - |
| acheniums | 16 | - | - |
| ammoniums | 15 | - | - |
| americium | 15 | a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms | - |
| alluviums | 14 | - | - |
| allodiums | 12 | - | - |
| arbitrium | 13 | - | - |
| anthodium | 15 | - | - |
| anthurium | 14 | any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers | - |
| antiunion | 9 | - | - |
| antiulcer | 11 | - | - |
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10 letter words
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| millennium | 14 | the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
| auditorium | 13 | the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
| triumphant | 17 | experiencing triumph | - |
| sanatorium | 12 | pejorative terms for an insane asylum | - |
| sanitarium | 12 | a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | - |
| consortium | 14 | an association of companies for some definite purpose | - |
| prosciutto | 14 | Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
| moratorium | 14 | a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged | - |
| compendium | 19 | a publication containing a variety of works | - |
| proscenium | 16 | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater | - |
| honorarium | 15 | a fee paid for a nominally free service | - |
| paramecium | 18 | any member of the genus Paramecium | - |
| gymnasiums | 18 | - | - |
| colloquium | 23 | an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting | - |
| nasturtium | 12 | aquatic herbs | - |
| symposiums | 19 | - | - |
| digitorium | 14 | - | - |
| diazoniums | 22 | - | - |
| desmodiums | 16 | - | - |
| desiderium | 14 | - | - |
| diacodiums | 16 | - | - |
| deuteriums | 13 | - | - |
| gadolinium | 14 | a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | - |
| fumatorium | 17 | - | - |
| filopodium | 18 | - | - |
| exosporium | 21 | - | - |
| fastigiums | 16 | - | - |
| euphorbium | 19 | an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine | - |
| euphoniums | 17 | - | - |
| eupatorium | 14 | large genus of chiefly tropical herbs having heads of white or purplish flowers | - |
| excambiums | 25 | - | - |
| epilobiums | 16 | - | - |
| epineurium | 14 | - | - |
| eponychium | 22 | - | - |
| epithelium | 17 | membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body | - |
| epicardium | 17 | the innermost of the two layers of the pericardium | - |
| epicranium | 16 | the muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium | - |
| encolpiums | 16 | - | - |
| entropiums | 14 | - | - |
| effluviums | 21 | - | - |
| elateriums | 12 | - | - |
| embothrium | 19 | small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters | - |
| drepaniums | 15 | - | - |
| ectropiums | 16 | - | - |
| dysprosium | 18 | a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; forms compounds that are highly magnetic | - |
| echiuroids | 16 | - | - |
| dochmiuses | 18 | - | - |
| diurnalist | 11 | - | - |
| diuturnity | 14 | - | - |
| manubriums | 16 | - | - |
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